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  "thread": {
    "id": 282,
    "subject": "Two questions",
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    "first": "1997-05-13T19:53:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-05-13T19:53:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0265@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
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      "date": "1997-05-13T19:53:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Two questions",
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          "text": "Lasrach,\n\nGood question--we'll count it as one.\n\nPatrick,\n\nYou're right of course, the question is like a haiku.  Plus, if you\nexpect Gene Wolfe to answer, \"He's a Bird. Next,\" then it becomes\nincreasingly likely that he'll do something different.  Perfect as\nis--you are now =forbidden= to change one iota! <g>\n\nRe: \"Any more plans to make Q & D official?\"  I guess it depends upon\nwhich definition of \"official\" you are using.  If you are asking have\nI figured out the next intermediate step, the answer is yes, I think\nso--but I've barely started making the motions.  If you are asking whether\nTor has any interest, or whether I've even bothered asking an employee of\nTor whether Tor has any interest, the answers are \"I doubt it with\nmetaphysical certitude\" and \"No.\"  But I've probably missed your\nmeaning!\n\nLong time passed you said you wondered what us English Majors would\nmake of some point.  What I want to know is--what does a guy have to\ndo to get a promotion in this organization?  I mean, I've been a\nmajor for quite some time now . . . feeling stuck in a rut.  When's\nthe next word war, the next big battle of the books, and what's the next\nrank--Cultural Custodian?  Literary Leftenant?  Private Keepout?\n\n=mantis="
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